iPhoto email - "Your email did not go through because the server did not reply. "

Any ideas how to get it working with yahoo step 2??

I had the same problem and I tried this fix and it solved my problem.

I don't see how anyone can see this as anything but a bug.😁

guiltriddenPCtraitor wrote:

I don't see how anyone can see this as anything but a bug.😁

Ahhhh-greeed.

Glad that worked for you and enjoy!

Clearly a problem with all Yahoo mail. None of my accounts work. Neither do a friends yahoo account.

I think it is probably apples issue though. My iCloud didn't work and I had to delete and re add and it worked. So why all if a sudden would all different accounts stop working.

Hmmm...I have three email accounts associated with iPhoto now, one of my own domains, gmail as well as iCloud. Of course as mentioned I had to completely wipe them all out in iPhoto and start fresh to get them working.

I have an old Yahoo account that still works and tried setting it up for iPhoto just now and guess what...like yours, it doesn't work! I know the settings are exactly right, but I get that same error...

So I've no idea what the problem is, or who's to blame, Yahoo or Apple. I'm just glad it's working with my other accounts. It should work with Yahoo mail of course, but ???

Yep. That's the error. My yahoo account worked for years just fine.

I think it's apple. Why would we have to delete all accounts and re add them.

Apple until proven otherwise. ;)

Indeed, no idea. To be honest for all of the years that I've used iPhoto last week was the very first time I ever tried to send an email using the built-in templates. I'd always just used Mail before. That's why I started hunting for an answer and ended up here.

I had changed a number of my email settings since installing iPhoto this time around so I'm guessing that it searches for email info during the setup but never updates it. Since I've changed passwords and other settings in the meantime I can see how it might have issues.

Of course that still doesn't forgive the fact that even after updating the email settings to exactly what they should be in iPhoto it STILL doesn't work...and it took wiping them completely and starting over to resolve things.

Why is Yahoo mail problematic? Still no idea. If it is Apple I'm pretty sure it's a bug and not on purpose. Here's where to complain...I know I did!

http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphoto.html

Alas the solution highlights a bug!

So I am using Gmail with two step identification. Tried all the obvious add/delete/try again combinations but this was the only thing that worked:

1. Delete the email account in iPhoto

2. Quit

3. Re-add the email account (using the application specific password)

That's it.

Frustratingly the 'Quit' step is required. I did this multiple times with multiple settings and it all just ended with an error about my internet connection (which is fine) - until the Quit step!

For reference, the smtp outgoing is 'smtp.gmail.com' and the port it '587'. Your username is your full email address e.g. name@gmail.com and the password is the one generated by your gmail account (if you are using two step).

This is definitely a bug, 100% Apple at fault. It can happen with any email account regardless of vendor. Also, though it may be necessarly to delete with some email accounts (I can't vouch for all of them), most do not require a deletion. Everytime I've had this happen (and it's happened A LOT), all I do is quit iPhoto, reopen it, and try again, and it works fine.

The annoying thing is if you had put a lot of work into the email, because it doesn't save a draft, you have to do everything over after restarting iPhoto.

Boo Apple! You really failed on this one, and it has not been resolved over a year now.

Why not tell Apple?

iPhoto Menu -> Provide iPhoto Feedback

Letting Apple know about any issues is always a good idea.

Also, prior to quitting iPhoto you might try copying your email content to your clipboard and paste it back in when you restart the program. No need to "do everything over". Just a thought.

Terence, I always do. Nothing has been done about this, and no reply. I think that is just a "feel good" menu item; I don't think that anyone really reads the feedback.

richsadams,

I tried that, but it wouldn't let me. I even tried selecting all, copying and pasting into an email in the real email program. Also a no-go. Great idea, it just didn't work.

Claidheamdanns wrote:

richsadams,

I tried that, but it wouldn't let me. I even tried selecting all, copying and pasting into an email in the real email program. Also a no-go. Great idea, it just didn't work.

Interesting. I just tried it and no problem. You can only copy/paste the text of course, not the image, but it works fine for me.

Guess if it doesn't work for you, you could try composing in TextEdit or Notes or something. A pain, but at least you wouldn't have to start over...I know how frustrating that can be.

Best of luck!

Claidheamdanns wrote:

Terence, I always do. Nothing has been done about this, and no reply. I think that is just a "feel good" menu item; I don't think that anyone really reads the feedback.

I can assure you that Apple does in fact read the feedback. I've been contacted by them twice and participated in a couple of trials to resolve things (not this particular issue though).

I wouldn't expect a response though...for all of the reasons you can imagine.

Hang in there.